Canadian Geospatial Briefing July 5, 2021: Geospatial Applications for Indigenous Issues; Canadian Company Teledyne CARIS is Mapping the Seafloor; How SBEO is Helping Track Extreme Weather Events from Space; and Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada’s New Drought Forecast Tool

5 July 2021 GoGeomatics Canada | AAFC

New Applications are Bringing Attention to Important Indigenous Issues June 2021 was a National Indigenous History Month like no other. With the heartbreaking discoveries made at former residential schools across the country, it is crucial […]

How Remote Sensing Applications Will Help Put a Price on Carbon

30 April 2021 Jake MacLean | Carbon Budget

Quantifying our Resources Advances in remote sensing are pushing forward our abilities to quantify natural resources. As satellites improve, offering increased resolution and shorter revisit times, we continue to see new applications of remote sensing […]

Share your Maps & Data: Soar.Earth jazzes up free access to satellite content every day

18 March 2021 Paul Yeung | atlas

Geared towards the general public, Soar.Earth presents an online platform that resembles a digital, free-of-charge atlas. Pooling in from crowd-sourced content, including satellite imagery, hobbyist drone photos and environmental remote sensing data, it almost feels […]

Your Canadian Geospatial Briefing for September 7th: UofC’s research on glacial lakes; Canadian youth in space sector; Remote Sensing reasons out orange dusting in N.W.T; USask’s AI contribution to agriculture; Calgary woman’s Park story map

7 September 2020 GoGeomatics Canada | Artificial Intelligence

Dramatic growth reported in glacial lakes – A study by University of Calgary Dr. Dan Shugar, an associate professor at the University of Calgary and the lead researcher for this study, along with his team […]

Your International Geospatial Briefing for July 6th: Facebook buys mapping start-up; NASA, ESA and JXA join to visualize the pandemic; UK with new geospatial strategy; Mapping supply chains in COVID-19

6 July 2020 GoGeomatics Canada | COVID-19

Facebook buys start-up in latest push to take on Apple and Google at street-level mapping To take on Apple and Google at mapping the world, Facebook has acquired a Swedish start-up, Mapillary. The seven-year-old start-up […]

NASA: a view of Hurricane Dorian from space

4 September 2019 GoGeomatics Canada | dorian

Satellites operated by NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) continue to track its movement and progress. You can see some of the images from those satellite observations above, which have been shared on […]

Your Canadian Geospatial Briefing for September 3rd: Is The GIS Market Vertically Challenged?; StatsCan using satellite data to estimate crop/yield production; Director of Data and Digital for the Government of Canada leaves to join AI Global; MDA Selected to Build Robotic Interfaces for the Canadarm3 on NASA-led Gateway; Teledyne Optech and LiDAR USA partner in dynamic new mobile UAV sensor integration; Drone test flight successfully delivers prescription drugs in Canada for the 1st time

3 September 2019 GoGeomatics Canada | AI Global

Is The GIS Market Vertically Challenged? Will Cadell attended GoGeomatics GeoIgnite event last spring in Ottawa, ON. During his time at this event, he did a presentation suggesting that “geospatial is a horizontal market hidden […]

Your Global Geospatial Briefing for December 17th: ICEYE-X2; 2018 in big data; London smart city awareness; Collect Earth Online; Geo4SDGs

16 December 2018 GoGeomatics Canada | Collect Earth Online

ICEYE-X2 publishes first image The world’s largest Synthetic-aperture radar (SAR) satellite constellation built by ICEYE has published its first image. The picture is of Natural Parks Aralar and Aizkorri-Aratz, Spain on December 7, 2018, taken […]